MNT VA2000, an Amiga 2000 Graphics Card (Zorro II)
[Not sure if this is the most suitable sub-forum...]
I saw mention of this, anyone else heard of it yet? https://github.com/mntmn/amiga2000-gfxcard/ A guy designed and built his own RTG-compatible Zorro II graphics card from scratch, DVI/HDMI output, working Picasso96 driver. Pretty impressive work! |
yes, someone posted about this in a danish amiga group on facebook - impressive stuff!
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Absolutely great!
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The writeup is a nice read and ofcourse the repo is fun to look through. How one could wish more Amiga projects where like this ;-)
Also: i'll be amused once the first person complains about unlicensed P96 crap if he sells a run :-D |
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He reversed engineered the P96 driver using UAE sources which are GNU/GPL. He is not the first one that has done it lately: The FPGAReplay guys and the Apollo Team (VampireII) did pretty much the same. |
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My user review of VA2000 in A4000 with the latest firmware and drivers v1.4.
http://jack.untergrund.net/2017/03/1...-card-fw-v1-4/ I must say progress is obvious and VA2000 is currently more then promissing project. |
Awesome that it is also Zorro3 and 32MB :)
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It is awesome that it manages to get Zorro II speed out of Zorro III.
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I have one on order with the MNTVA2000CX add-on card. Not sure whether to run it in my A2000 or A4000 (have a Retina BLT Zorro 3 Card in that already).
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I am awaiting an order as well with the VA2000CX. I only have an A2000, but I would suggest trying both. One benefit to the 4000 is that the VA2000 can supply a lot more RAM when not held back by Zorro II
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I wish I could hook it up to the 32-bit graphics card port on my GVP accelerator instead of the Z2 port in the A2000. :(
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I think its quite obvious the total market for that is far to small for that.....
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Interesting concept about using an FPGA for a dedicated RTG card -
I wonder if after the general 2D stuff is implemented that 3D stuff like Transforming and Lighting could be implemented - I suppose this comes down to the size and speed of the FPGA - still one would be lacking the software to really use it sadly =( |
Soooooo been trying to get hold of MNT (Lukas) for quite some time now to see if we can get screen dragging with new P96 and OS3.1.4/3.2 and finally got a response from their official MNT forum https://community.mnt.re/ and the response is:
"Hi, unfortunately we don’t have any resources to work on VA2000 firmware at the moment. But the firmware and drivers are completely open source, so anyone competent in Verilog and C could add such functionality." ..so any fellow VA2000 users here that are competent in Verilog and C :cheese |
hmm so firmware update for ZZ9000 today for screen dragging on Twitter but no love for VA2000 owners:(
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That's kind of how these things go though. At least the design and code is open source. There's a site explaining how to build the code. Maybe start with that then look at which bits of the ZZ9000 code look similar and might be possible to integrate.
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Unfortunately I'm not competent in Verilog and C and don't even know how to look for the code that MNT did for the ZZ9000 card which was just released and btw I believe the ZZ9000 is also open source right:blased So why not make 'ALL' their customers 'who are competent in Verilog and C' create their own firmware? I bought my VA2000 and VA2000cx only a few years ago not 20 plus years ago |
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